For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The zodiac signs, rooted in drama-filled myths, reveal personality traits through ancient legends. Aries embodies a failed ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write. Instead, scientists suspect that domesticated forms of wildcats were first ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

From floating shrines and striking synagogues to golden monuments and sprawling sacrificial sites, these are the most ...

The werewolf myth is not a product of modern fiction, but a story going back more than two millennia to Lycaon, the ancient ...

The researchers estimate that the animal reached about 20 meters in length. The researchers were careful not to declare the ancient whale had broken the record. But there was also “no reason to ...

As such, it’s possible that the ancient inhabitants of Başur Höyük chose human sacrifice victims based not on class, but on “ritual associations of youths or ranked age sets” that formed ...